JTA Skyway Riverside Extension

[Coolyfett]

We dont need to be worrying that much on a new monorail vehicle and more on the expansion. We all know new modern looking monorails are cool, but right now we need to worry about getting what we have useful.

I hear that, i wish they would make Terminus & Kings Ave Station like Rosa Parks Station and stop running the buses pass those stations.

[Coolyfett]

It would great riding the Skyway from Riverside to the Sports Complex....sounds like  a good thing.

Most definately! Many people in Riverside would use it. Probably more than Springfield or San Marco folks.

To Stephan dare...would people in your area use Skyway if it was in Springfield?? Seriously?

[iLenin]

Listen, I'm in 6th grade, so i may not know much, but if im completely honest, a riverside extension isn't completely what i was looking for.
i don't mean to be a downer, and to lighten up, it's a good start that will.. no pun intended.. get us on a [or the] right track.
Seeing as many people vote for this, I completely support such an idea, especially with the fact that our commute involves going from riverside to downtown.
When will this be coming, and taxpayer money will help. I don't care, if the taxpayer money goes into something worthwhile, and not something worth protesting about [GO OCCUPY WALL ST!!!], it's fine.
Just as long as not all of it is coming from our now-empty pockets.
We don't want to pre-empty everything we'll have for next year, seeing as what happened in NYC in [the] 1970s.

Quote from: Ocklahawa (Did i get it right?)
   Not only those but the cars and products of a dozen or more builders of off the shelf monorail trains.  Our beamway is a bit         wider then most systems, but almost any order can be customized to fit. BTW, there is a model of the new Hitachi Monorail Trains, in the Skyway Offices.
Great. The trains should be longer, and the tube that keeps em together should be sturdy but usable ; usable in the sense of you can walk through it like a bus in NYC.. ddarn new york city is the best place ever..

[Coolyfett]

Your in the 6th grade??

[TheProfessor]

The skyway need to become a bike lane.  Light Rail is the answer.

[wsansewjs]

When you need to ride a monorail, you just need to go MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,

-Josh

[Ocklawaha]

The skyway need to become a bike lane.  Light Rail is the answer.

A healthy mix of transportation modes, each doing what and where it does better then the other options. San Marco is a primary example of a 'Skyway Extension' neighborhood. Buses and streetcars do not make sense when the FEC RY can kill the whole schedule with a single train blocking the crossings. Imagine the Skyway originating in San Marco, then crossing the river for Rosa Parks, Blue Cross, Shand's and the stadium. Passengers originating on the Southbank would thus have a seamless ride to the north, east or west, on the Northbank. The streetcar would be superior in the immediate downtown neighborhoods with the potential to become the downtown core of a regional light rail system. Bus Rapid Transit would shine between downtown Jacksonville, Orange Park and the Beaches. Likewise a Lem Turner Road BRT route and a Post - Cassat - Blanding route would be better would be a good fit. Commuter Rail to Fernandina Beach, Palm Coast, Green Cove Springs and Gainesville would serve markets untouchable with a bus. Mixing modes, with coordinated schedules, and cross platform transfers would be a game changer at JTA.

iLenin, you are correct that a subway IS POSSIBLE in Jacksonville, after all we build railroad tunnels under the English Channel don't we? Where subway fails in Jacksonville is enormous costs and few passengers. Subways don't have to be under ground, many operate segments on the surface or elevated, but again it's the costs that make it totally impractical in a smaller sprawl city like Jacksonville. Subways make sense in places like San Francisco, or New York City because they have no vacant land and building up is their only option. Stacking thousands of apartments on top of each other makes for very dense populations, ideal subway target locations.

OCKLAWAHA

[mtraininjax]

A subway in Jacksonville.....I've heard it all officially.

[iLenin]

Your in the 6th grade??

yes, what is your point?
On the more considerate topic


we would like to thank some blog that i found about jacksonville transit.

Anyways, this would be a perfect layout for the monorail, seeing as the monorail is already wanted to spread out into Riverside.

What's the point of making a streetcar, we see where the trolley and skyway went, another failed way of public transit isn't going to get us any closer to what we want.
Why don't we work on fixing the things we have first, before we go on making a new one? Unless the streetcar can connect and transfer to an Acosta station near the YMCA, i see it as a waste.
I'm not hating on mayor peyton or whoever's in office he's done a good job at keeping people relatively happy, but JTA needs to finally settle on some form of transit.
As far as I'm concerned CSX or whoever, Amtrak, they're making enough money to make a small commuter train that runs through jacksonville and jacksonville only and extensively.

By the way, look at all of the space you find in this station. There's so much, we could fit a small shop or vending machines in there.
With all of the space we have, we COULD fit a small shop, or a machine, like I said previously, but we could also just extend the station size and we can even fit a second rail on there.
Definitely though, a riverside extension would be great.

This seems like exactly on the mark of the Amtrack or CSX idea.

just dont hire the guy who did the disney monorail

The Disney monorail looks fine to me, I have no problems with it, but I do think it looks less industrial than I like (I am a NYC subway model supporter ; I am going to start collecting Munipals, LOOK . THEM . UP .) The monorail there might have some problems technically but it has never had any serious problems unless they were completed by the driver.
Honestly, the skyway extension isn't far away.

[Coolyfett]

JTA Skyway Riverside Extension



No one knows when or if it will ever happen, but the land has been set aside for a possible extension of the Skyway to serve Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fidelity, and Everbank.


Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2009-jul-jta-skyway-riverside-extension

[Coolyfett]

A subway in Jacksonville.....I've heard it all officially.

Florida should never do underground rail. An elevated systeem like the skyway is the best way to do it.

[Ocklawaha]

A subway in Jacksonville.....I've heard it all officially.

Florida should never do underground rail. An elevated systeem like the skyway is the best way to do it.

Actually neither. Florida and Jacksonville in particular should build steel wheel on steel rail, surface transportation links. The monorail should be expanded to the stadium, San Marco, and perhaps Riverside, but before I'd do a Riverside link, I'd like to see a 'sky walk' from the current San Marco station to the insurance and hospital community.

[Coolyfett]

So the Skyway is closed on saturdaays now?

[fsujax]

It's only open on the weekends for special occasions.

[peestandingup]

It's only open on the weekends for special occasions.

LOL. Good Lord.